Today's News

Girl Scouts will be selling cookies through Sunday, March 15 and then they will be gone until 2010.

Girl Scouts will also be accepting monetary donations to the Gift of Caring program. In the program, troops choose a charitable organization in their community to visit and deliver boxes of Girl Scout Cookies donated by their customers.

A Taylor County judge has ordered three parcels of property be temporarily condemned for a road construction project.

Three small parcels of land that are part of Green River Plaza, totaling less than an acre, will be condemned as a result of the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet's KY 210 widening project. The Transportation Cabinet will pay owner Centro Ga Apollo $28,000 for use of the land.

Two Campbellsville residents were sentenced in Marion Circuit Court on March 2. They are:

-James Darrell Moore, 30, of 2955 St. Matthew Church Road in Campbellsville, who pleaded guilty to alcohol intoxication. He was sentenced to two years of pretrial diversion. He was ordered to pay a $10 monthly supervision fee, a $500 fine and $150 in court costs.

Taylor County Fiscal Court's Budget, Audits and Personnel Committee recently concluded that the 2009-2010 jail budget funding will fall about $600,000 short of needed revenue. There are a lot of factors that have led to this situation and are, at this point in time, really not relevant.

What is important is how the shortfall is addressed.

Suggestions that have arisen include: raising the occupational tax rate, adding an insurance premium tax, adding a sunset tax and even breaking the occupational tax agreement with the City.